Pilates for Runners

However, while running can do wonders for your overall health, it can also play havoc on your joints because running is a high impact form of exercise which involves the same repetitive movements. This places your joints, in particular your knees and hips under a lot of stress.

So it is very important to supplement your running with forms of exercise that help strengthen your joints such as Pilates.

Helps bodies avoid injuries in the first place and recover faster if sustained

A strong core is crucial to being a good runner because it improves efficiency when running and helps maintain proper form when runners do start to fatigue. Maintaining proper form when fatiguing is important for runners to avoid placing further strain on their legs and lower back, which increases significantly the risk of injury.

By increasing the body’s flexibility, strength and balance a runner’s risk of injury can be minimised. Pilates techniques target balance, flexibility, and functional movements, which help strengthen and support the musculature around the torso, hips, shoulders and pelvis.

Pilates can also help expand your diaphragm which helps you breathe easier. Ease of breath is important for runners and non-runners alike. However runners who are looking for new ways to minimise their lung and leg fatigue will be able to use Pilates breathing techniques to expand their diaphragms.

So it is very important to supplement your running with forms of exercise, such as Pilates, that help strengthen the muscles that support your joints. If you are a runner, or know someone who is, and you want to experience first-hand how Pilates can improve your running or any movement technique contact us today!

My husband and I have been attending sessions with PilatesCan for more than ten years almost continuously. Our instructor, one of the owners, is outstanding. Her ability to identify even apparently minute issues in posture, movement and technique is unbelievable. She is also then able to quickly offer an exercise which targets the appropriate parts of the body to deliver results. All from memory! Her knowledge, currency, and advice is excellent.

I have been a client at PilatesCan for over a decade. I simply cannot recommend this team highly enough. They are excellent in full health, facilitating flexibility and core fitness, and fantastic with injuries too. I have experienced everything they offer from one on one, to semi private group sessions to mat classes. Try them out, they care. You won't be disappointed

As an ontological coach, I understand that a person's fundamental way of being in the world is impacted on by the alignment, fluidity and strength of his or her body. PilatesCan are experts in helping each client become adept in the development of their own body, with the inevitable flow-on benefits for increased strength and fitness, and reduced physical and emotional stress. PilatesCan has helped me to deal with the challenges of multiple injuries and fibromyalgia, allowing me to maintain a high level of health and wellbeing when I may otherwise have 'given in to my fate.' I cannot recommend Claire and her team highly enough.

Highly professional, knowledgeable and friendly staff working from beautiful studios in two convenient locations. The staff have worked closely with me to effectively manage pre-exisiting conditions and a pregnancy. They even reviewed my MRI results and tailored a program to build up my strength to significantly reduce pain. Every week, my back is checked to tweak the program to what my body needs that day. Explanations are given as to why a certain exercise will help and what muscles it is targeting. Thank you Pilates Can for your dedication to your clients and your flexibility to reschedule when life gets in the way.

For more than 2 years I thoroughly enjoyed my weekly semi-private classes at PilatesCanManuka. I have some lower back issues, but Claire and Trudy always managed to put me back together again. Their repertoire of exercises and adaptations to suit everyone’s abilities and needs are amazing. I have moved overseas now but truly miss them.